The Dash - Exodus 32 32 - Sins against the Holy Ghost — Dan Biser

The Call for a Solemn Assembly

Your Bibles and open up to Exodus chapter 32, one of the passages of Scripture that has always spoken to me and the opportunity that I get tonight to present it, to preach it, in relationship to what's going on in relationship to our world and some of the things that I've already shared with you in regards to the events that we just heard about today and that we're continue to keep a watchful eye on that.

And so again the call for a solemn assembly is again is that we understand that in this present day besides the remedial judgments that we've seen for years now, decades now, besides the epidemics that are upon our nation right now, and again if you haven't followed along with those things, remedial judgments are judgments and warnings that God sends and God allows for them to be upon a nation, a people, and that can be a nation as far as government or that can be his own people.

And so he sends those things that they might be awakened, stirred, is to say wait a minute, this isn't normal. And to realize is that they have fallen away from God and he's calling them to come back.

Remedial Judgments and the Warning of Leviticus

Now Leviticus is a clear measure of this. In Leviticus chapter 26 there is a warning over and over and over in that chapter that says and if you refuse to hear, listen, and obey, then God says the next judgment will be seven times worse.

And so we've seen a ramping up of these judgments, these remedial judgments that have come upon our nation, and I don't have time to go into all those right now, but they have now reached epidemic proportions which again is the mass population of which we see.

We went from the coronavirus being in the remote city of Wuhan in China to a couple hundred to a couple thousand to now a global pandemic where all the nations are involved. And so the escalation has been so quick in a matter of weeks and months that we see this escalation.

And so again the remedial judgments start off in severity but as they increase because of the refusal of God's people to understand what's going on, they increase, they multiply, and that's the reason we've gone from isolated incidents to epidemic.

The Church’s Response to Evil

And so this is what we're dealing with tonight. And the question is to say that if this evil, and again Isaiah tells us, when flood, when evil comes in like a flood, it says God raises up a standard against it.

And that's you, brother. That's why you're interested in a call for a solemn assembly. That's why so many of you are writing saying I'm weeping and I'm crying. My heart's broken for our nation. My heart's broken for the church, for the bride.

This isn't what God intended. And so you understand this. And God is moving us at a time like this for his purpose, for his will. And that's what we want to understand tonight. But this is the one thing that is the most important.

It is key to what we're dealing with this evening. And why? Why is this happening? And what is the response of the church that is absolutely necessary for these days? And so I find is that again the account of the Word of God, that again it is very consistent, that even though the Old Testament is directed to the old covenant of the law with Moses and the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which again a lot of times the church dissects it and says well that's not relevant.

I'm sure that you've heard of preachers that have cut out the Old Testament, thrown it away and saying that has nothing to do with us. But the whole Word of God is from Genesis to Revelation is connected.

And it is God's masterful plan of him relating and speaking to us out of. And so over in the book of Exodus chapter 32, we have this scenario that unfolds, which is key to the scenario that we are currently in tonight.

Waiting for Power from on High

And I think it to be the crucial key, the crux of the matter so to say, is that again when Christ died, and as we celebrated just a couple weeks ago, Christ died, Christ resurrected on Easter, and he came to his disciples and he gave them a command over in Luke 24.

He said, go into Jerusalem and wait. Wait until you be endued with power from on high. And we have that glorious picture of John chapter 20, that when Jesus appeared to those that were there in that room of the disciples there, and it says, and he breathed on them, and he said, receive the Holy Ghost.

And then you go over to Acts chapter 1, chapter 2, the first church, the hundred and hundred and twenty, went into the upper room, and there they stayed for ten days doing exactly what Christ had commanded them.

Now Christ would have been glorified in the first part of Acts chapter 1, and he says, now go into Jerusalem and wait. And they waited ten days, and they were waiting, they did not know for what, it was just obedience to the Lord.

And on the tenth day, it was as that the Holy Spirit came in as a rushing mighty wind, and sat upon their heads with the clothes of fire, and consumed in spirit those that were in that room. And again, they spoke in tongues that every man heard the gospel.

Peter stands and preaches in the power and authority of the Word of God, and 3 ,000 people are saved within a matter of minutes. Now that is where we're at today. The endowment and the fullness of the power of the Holy Spirit.

Sins That Limit the Church’s Power

That again, because of where we're at, what we've done, is that again, we have committed these sins against God's Holy Spirit that are limiting us as the church today. We can pray all we want, you can go witness to 5 ,000 people and not one person gets saved.

You can say 5 ,000 prayers and not one of them be answered. And we see a limitation with this mighty power of the gospel, mighty power of prayer, and we see the limitation in it today. And someone has to ask the question, why?

God is the same. The same venues, the preaching of the Word. Peter preached, 3 ,000 saved. They prayed, people were raised from the dead, people were made whole. What's different? Well, it's not on God's part.

And so we've got to understand where it comes back on us. And Brother Doug Stringer, in his closing remarks, was addressing that. And I come back to that. We have to answer the question, what's wrong with us, the church?

Moses Intercedes for Israel

And so in Exodus chapter 32, let me read this text. And let's go ahead. And in chapter 32, again, Moses is up on the mount. God has called him up there to receive the Ten Commandments. And so verse 9, chapter 32 of Exodus, And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people.

And he said, Behold, it is a stiff-necked people. Now therefore, let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them, that I may consume them. Imagine hearing God speak this to you about your family, about our nation.

I'm going to consume them in a moment. And I will make of you a great nation. Moses besought the Lord as God. And he said, Lord, why does your wrath wax hot against your own people, which thou has brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

There's that great power. Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, for mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the mountains, to consume them from the face of the earth. Turn from your fierce wrath and repent of this evil against your own people.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, thy servants, to whom you swear by your own self. And you said unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven. And all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.

And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. Now Moses turns, and he went down from the mouth, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand. The tables were written on both their sides.

The one on the other side were they written. And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God. Wraven upon the tables. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, there is a noise of war in the camp.

And he said, it is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome. But it is the noise of them that do sing, I hear. And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, the dancing.

Moses, anger waxed hot, cast the two tables out of his hands, and he broke them before the mountain. And he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, strawed it upon the water, and he made the children of Israel to drink of it.

And Moses said unto Aaron, what did this people unto you that you have brought so great a sin upon them? And Aaron said, let not the anger of my Lord wax hot. Thou knowest the people that they are set on mischief.

For they said unto me, make us gods which shall go before us. For as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we did not, we have not, we woke not what has become of him. And I said unto them, whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off.

So they gave it to me. I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. And when Moses saw that the people were naked, for Aaron had made them naked unto their own shame among their enemies, then Moses stood in the gate to the camp, and he said, who is on the Lord's side?

Let him come unto me, as all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said unto them, thus saith the Lord God of Israel, put every man who swore by side, go in and out from gate to gate throughout the kingdom, slud, every man his brother, every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.

And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and there fell the people that day, about three thousand men. Moses had said, consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, every man upon his son, upon his brother, that he may bestow upon you a blessing for this day.

The Dash in Exodus 32:32

Verse 30 is the key to this. So on the morrow, and it came to pass, but on the morrow that Moses said unto the people, you have sinned a great sin, and now I will go up to the Lord. Perventure, I shall make an atonement for your sins.

And Moses returned to the Lord, and he said, all this people have sinned a great sin, and they have made them gods of gold. Verse 32, the dash. And yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin, dash. An incomplete sentence stopped in the middle of this petition that Moses is speaking.

And he says, but if not, blot me, I pray you, out of thy book which thou hast written. And the Lord said unto Moses, whosoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. Therefore now go, lead the people into the place of which I have spoken unto you.

For behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day that when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them. And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the calf which Aaron had made.

And the Lord plagued the people. Anytime that you hear these preachers today, teachers today, that said the Lord doesn't ever plague anybody, you know that it's from what I preached this morning, they don't know the Word of God.

And they don't know the God of the Word. It is clear in Scripture that God is the instrument here that says, because of their sin, I'm going to judge them and bring this to their attention. Now it is in that verse 32, it is from 30 to 33 here, is that I want to center in for this evening for our prayer time, of which we'll conclude with.

Holy Anger and Zeal for God

And so it is, is that we read here that Moses turns to the people after he had dealt with the judgment of them after he came down, because it says that Moses' anger waxed hot. And again, you say, well Moses' sin, there is a difference between fleshly anger and there's a holy anger.

And then you read that and trace that throughout all the scriptures with that. And again, you can see it in church history as well, that there is a holy zeal that rises up within us, that we are very zealous and jealous for the things of God when someone takes our Lord's name in vain.

And there's that anger that wells up within us, not to destroy them, but to correct them. You don't speak his name irreverently. You don't take his name in vain. And again, how much more so when you see the church do this.

So there is this thing that when you see God's ways being distorted, God's ways being compromised with, when you see his church, and again, as we were talking about North Korea, when we see brothers and sisters being assaulted and attacked in Nigeria and these other places that they're being persecuted and their blood is being shed, there's an anger that rises up and we cry out, Lord, defend your people, protect them, deliver them, shield them.

You are the Lord of hosts. Send your heavenly host to go and safeguard them from the hands of the enemy. And so again, we see this. And so Moses, as he comes down, and God had told him, the people have sinned against me.

And when he comes down and he sees it, he responds by saying to the Levites, and you'd ask the question, who's on the Lord's side? He said, now go through and slay those that are guilty of this. And 3 ,000 people died of that.

And he turns to the people the next morning, after the people have been shamed, and they go back to their tents that night. Now again, they have faced 3 ,000 people being shed right in front of them. They know that they have offended God by this point.

They don't know what the consequences of that might be. It might be worse than that. And it is, Moses, as he turns and he says, you have sinned a great sin. And then he goes up to the mountain, he returns before God, and he says to God, they have sinned a great sin.

Twice is this mention of this. Three times in the chapter, but twice in this dialogue. Once to the people, you've sinned a great sin. And then once before God, they have sinned a great sin. And in the midst of this, in verse 32, this is a verse that has always captivated me.

And I don't remember. Again, I started, as I shared this morning, I started reading my Bible through when I was 15 years old, and read it through. But I don't know how many years after I started reading it through every year.

I had that 365 day thing where I was reading it through. I don't remember how long it was. I had to be well up into my 20s, if not close to 30, that finally coming through, I noticed this verse that stopped me.

And I never saw it before. Don't you love that when God reveals something in the Word of God that you never saw before, and you feel like, again, is that you've reached utopia or something like that, is to say, wow, what an illumination here, an enlightenment with this.

But I never noticed, in all the Bible, and correct me by email, whatever, if there is another one, I do not know of any other verse in the Bible that is incomplete like this one. Other verses have a period.

They have a semicolon. They have punctuation at the end. But there is no verse in the Bible that I'm aware of. And again, the cause of this one, where Moses, in his statement, speaking to God, oh, they have sinned a great sin.

And in a statement that he makes here with this, where he says, and yet now, if thou wilt forgive them, pardon them. And it just stops in midstream. And you know what it is. It's not that he lost his train of thought.

It's not like he lost his speech. He breaks down. This is a man of brokenness. Remember, just earlier, when he was in the visitation of God, earlier in this chapter, God says, I've seen this people and I'm going to consume them.

And Moses interceded for them and protected them and delivered them. They don't know exactly what he did at this point. It's not clear that it was revealed to them. But he is before God and he realizes what God is ready and willing to do.

He's ready to consume them in a moment. How is it that any one of us could not look at the nations, could not look at our nation, could not look at the state of the church and not be moved with a plea from God, with this dash where we, in mid petition, mid supplication, mid intercession, stop and plead with God, saying, oh, God, forgive us, pardon us, because we know you're ready in a moment to consume us.

And we're being consumed. Seventy thousand drug overdose deaths last year, 50 ,000 suicides, 60 ,000, 50 to 60 ,000 homicides on the streets, coronaviruses has matched that within 30 days. And so here we are with tens of thousands of those that are dying, we're in a society of death.

We see the Baltimore, we see New Orleans, we see St. Louis, we see Chicago, we see all these places that every night they are riddled with homicides on the streets, homes that are being attacked by stray bullets.

We see life being vanquished and people being rushed out of this world into eternity. And we know, we know the certainty they are not ready. They live lives in the abominations that we're confessing. They have denied the Holy Spirit.

They have said, make us false gods and let us worship them. They have, they have fallen down to worship the God of money and the God of entertainment and the God of ease and the God of humanism and the God of self.

And they have replaced God, and even in the church, we have forsaken God. And it is the most urgent hour of our history, in 2020, that you and I are allowed to be a participant, to be allowed to be alive tonight, to be a part of such a time as this, that God would revive us and God would bring us back from where we're at.

Oh God, pardon us, forgive us. And we break down in mid-sentence with the dash, where there is tears and there is weeping and there is wailing, and we go to Joel chapter 2, where he says, let the priests, let the priests fall down at the altar.

Let them fall down for all-night prayer meetings. Weep and mourn and wail for the condition that you see the nation. But as we have seen, that's not happening. There is no fear of the Lord, still, in the United States.

Repentance, Brokenness, and Prevailing Prayer

When you try to explain to people what God is doing and why God is doing it, in the church and out of the church, their response is the same. It is a callousness. It is a hard-heartedness. It is having years to hear, but they won't hear.

You say, well, then how do you break through this? There are loved ones that many of you have conversed with year after year, after year, month after month, week after week, pleading with God in your closet, pleading for their salvation, begging God in this same verse, Exodus 32, 32, and you broke down in your closet.

You broke down in mid-sentence with the plea and the petition of your heart. Oh God, save my son, save my daughter, because if anything happens to them, I'll never see them again. That is the most urgent, fervent prayer that could possibly be made in this hour that we're living today.

It is not, it is not a drive-by prayer. It is not a casual prayer, and I have some disdain for those ones that treat it so, so much so, because I believe that this hour that we're living today is requiring of the church today that we respond brightly before God, as he has instructed us to do.

Sackcloth, fasting, tears, mourning, all day. This is the reason of what you said, why 12 hours today? Because again, the church is not, the church in North America is not used to proactive, protracted times of prayer and preaching.

We want as quick as we can, where again, we've seen the setup and the makeup. You can have a band get up, and musicians get up, and the people singing, and they can sing 50 minutes, and they're done, because they've been entertained, they've been satisfied, they've been in church, they've sang the Lord's songs, and they just want the preacher to get up and preach 10 -15 minutes and dismiss them.

When it is the proclamation of the Word, cause them to know me. Again, what I preached this morning, the reason we don't know God is because of the preaching of the Word is absent from most pulpits, a lot of pulpits.

Prayer is absent from a lot of churches, and this plea that we're at, oh God, we're coming before you tonight on behalf of our nation. We're coming on behalf of the state of the church tonight, pleading with you, have mercy on us, oh God.

I know at the moment, and again, this is the urgency of this. What if we fail? You say, well what are you expecting out of these two days, Dan? What do you want from us in this? I want to prevail. You see, it is not just good enough to pray prayers.

You must pray to prevail, and the only way that you prevail is what Brother Doug preached this afternoon when Leonard Ravenhill said it. He said, God does not hear prayers. God does not hear and answer prayers, just common prayers.

He hears and answers desperate prayers. We're not desperate, as Brother Doug Small preached this morning. There is a majority of the church that is more interested in the NFL draft tonight than they are on the souls of the conditions of the United States of America and the population of the world.

There are more people interested in their series on Netflix than they are about the things of God, and they're not on this map where they have heard the voice of God and seen the hand of God that he is consuming us.

The dash is absent. Now if you are in a church, and you're in a prayer group, and you are one yourself, God bless you that you understand this dash. But I'm telling you it ought to become the foremost priority of our life to get back, because there has never been a time where we have not needed God more.

And you could say, well, what about World War I, World War II, the other experiences that we've talked about, 9 -11, Hurricane Katrina, and all these. We've needed God. But you see, in those moments, you know, again, for the last 21 years, this is how the church has responded.

This is how prayer ministries, this is how church leaders have responded. I've watched this, and I've thought about this, and contemplated. Watch what happens after every calamity. Watch what happens after every school shooting, after every mass shooting.

Las Vegas, when the gunman gunned down, record number. Orlando, Los Angeles, Dallas, all these places. Look at Sandy Hook. Look at Columbine. Look at these places where there was tragedy and much evil that was done.

Was there any of this addressed? All these people have sinned a great sin. There's no mention of sin. There's no mention of abominations. There's no mention of our, as the church, our failure for this culture and this society today.

It's about the mental stability of this person. Or was they on drugs? Or was they abused when they was at their house, in their home? And again, we, the church, has forgotten what God said about these issues.

That's the reason, under the absence of the dash, there's no brokenness. But you see, when you understand that when you sin against God, as a nation, and as the church, there are consequences. Woe unto us, throughout the Bible, is the study where we come to where God says, and if you don't repent, how about Ephesians chapter 2, where he says to the church at Ephesus, if you don't repent, I'm going to come and remove your candlestick.

Is there any pastor? Is there any laborer? Is there any layman? Is there any prayer ministry out there tonight that is concerned that God might be getting ready to remove the candlestick of the North American church?

This might be our last hurrah. This might be our last moment to beseech God, oh God, pardon us. Don't remove us from the book. Now you say, well, I'm not worried about losing my salvation. Well, that's wonderful.

But I'm telling you is that when you look at the state, the estate of the church today, there is something drastically missing from what we're reading about in the book of Acts. You want to know what it is?

It's the Holy Ghost. It's the presence of the Holy Spirit that brings conviction, that brings remembrance, that brings edification, that brings us into the place that we need to be to hear from God. And again, the burden of this, the weight of this, what can the church do without the power of the Holy Spirit?

Why can't we stand up, aside from the mockery of Kenneth Hagin and that display that he put on? Where is God still not the same as the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts chapter 2? Did Jesus not say, and you shall do the works that I do and greater works than these?

Those are all still true. It's not God. It's us. We have sinned a great sin. We have provoked him to anger. Yes, the Supreme Court has legalized abortion. Yes, the Supreme Court has legalized homosexuality.

Yes, they've overturned Prohibition. Yes, we've done all these things and abominations before God and caused our society to fall. But the church, the church remains silent on its sins. We have sinned a great sin.

Seven Warnings Concerning the Holy Spirit

Daniel chapter 9, Ezra chapter 9, Nehemiah chapter 9, the great prayers of confession. We have sinned against you, O God, and your Holy Spirit is now limited. He is now, and again, there are seven things in the scriptures, and we're going to pray these in our time of prayer tonight, but it's that you are aware that there are seven warnings in the Bible about the Holy Spirit that we are never to do as God's people.

Now, it's one thing for the heathen. The heathen can commit the unpardonable sin and never be born again. We understand that that sin, but to the church, the warnings are given, and you have these that are marked throughout Scripture.

You have the one, again, which is most familiar in Ephesians, where he tells us that, where he says, do not grieve the Holy Spirit. You have 1 Thessalonians that tells us, don't quench the Holy Spirit.

You have Acts chapter 7, where Stephen was preaching, and he saw the hardness of their ears and the hearts and nose that was defiant against him, and he says, you do always resist the Holy Spirit. We've seen those that resist him.

You see the other ones in the book of Psalm, where David writes, and he says, do not limit the Holy One. You go to Acts chapter 3, now again, this is more so for Christ, but again, Peter and John preaching here, and they declare that, they said, you have denied the Holy One, the just one.

And again, we could do the same thing, deny the operation of the Holy Spirit in the disobedience. And over in Isaiah chapter 63 is one that I just found and added to this, because I've prayed these and taught these for a number of years, but this is one that I just came across in Isaiah 63, where he says, you are rebellious, rebelling against the Holy Spirit, and you always do vex, what a hard word, vex the Holy Spirit.

When I came across that, because I was over there doing one of the blogs that I do, I'm in Isaiah, and I just came through that, and I remember I was just captivated with that, vexing the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit.

Grieving and Quenching the Spirit in Worship

You know, where we walk into church services, and again, when we get back to this, as Brother Doug Small this morning gave us that instruction of getting the church back to prayer meetings before we start church back up, and being ever so sensitive to the Holy Spirit.

You know, again, I've seen in church services, the same as I'm sure that you have, when Satan enters in and causes distractions and disruptions, and we grieve and quench the Holy Spirit away from us. It only takes a small thing.

You know, on this live stream, it could be a buffering thing, or a tech issue, or it could be someone pops up for an email, or like on your Facebook, and you've got to go check it out, and you operate yourself and lean from the presence of the preaching of the Word, and the sensitivity of the Holy Spirit to go check on something that's so frugal, and so vain, and so empty, and yet that captivates us in our minds, when God's saying, but what about me?

Oh, those people who have sinned a great sin. When you hear preachers step into the pulpit, and they just dissect the Word of God horribly, to make their own doctrine, that which is presentable. Oh, those people have sinned a great sin.

When we lessen the standard of God by compromising with sin, while we say it's okay for these evils that are being done today, because God loves everybody, and God doesn't want anybody to go to hell, and He's going to save everybody, and they have this false presentation of the gospel.

Oh, those people have sinned a great sin. And here we are, in the greatest hour of our need for our nation, for the world, and for the church, to be desperate, to be filled with the Holy Spirit. I always quote that in the book of Luke there, where he tells us that, and he says, if you being evil, I'm a father.

If you being evil, as a father, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask for it? We heard Brother Tom, this afternoon, talk about the passion and the prayer for Billy Graham, and for his life, and ministry of Tom's in the world, and the nations that he's been with these Crusades, and the work that God has called him to do of revival.

Do we not realize is that revival never comes until the fullness of the Holy Spirit comes? When Brother Doug was talking about Duncan Campbell and the Hebrides, and again, is that there was no revival happening till the Holy Spirit came down, and that means is that he's not grieved or quenched.

Prevailing Prayer Before Calamity

People are walking on eggshells because they're scared. The fear of the Lord is present, and they're worried about their conditions, and they're worried about what's coming, and again, as has been said, is that calamity causes people to consider this, and that's tragedy, because every calamity that we've had in the United States in the last 21 years is always followed by these words from church and prayer leaders, pray for them.

Somewhere along the line, I got sick of that. Somewhere between 2010 -2015, I just got sick to death, is that after every tragedy, that's all I heard from church leaders was, well, let's just pray for them, because I realized is that prayer, prevailing in prayer, gives us the potential to stop it before it happens, and so Columbine was a shock moment for our society, for our nation.

We'd never seen anything like this. We'd never heard anything like this, and as the years came after that, and we saw more and more school shootings, and it became every month and almost every week wondering whose school was next.

Where is this going to happen at? I began to take on, and my prayer partners with me, we began to pray, is that again, day in and day out praying, stop the school shootings, because I was tired of praying for them after the tragedy, after the death, and I'm telling you, it is a prayer of the dash that does that.

It is the broken-hearted that says, I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am tired and sick of seeing the evil increase when I know that there is a God in heaven who hears our prayers and can answer them, and he can do anything, and you begin to pray prevailing prayers over this evil that's in this world.

Paul gives us authority with this of tearing down strongholds, you know, attacking the enemy, taking the battle to him. We don't wrestle against flesh and blood. I'm not wrestling against this group or that group.

My battle is beyond that, the one who's behind all this. Principalities and powers and the rulers of the darkness of the air, and I take that power, that fight to him, but I cannot go in my own strength because I am a failure.

In the Holy Spirit, there's victory, and it is the endowment of the Holy Spirit that we need to pray for the remnant and for his bride once again, and when that comes, because every revival calls us out.

Revival, Church History, and the Holy Spirit

I talked about Jonathan Edwards last night in the Great Awakening of the sermon that he preached, who centers in the hands of an angry God. I mentioned the Chinese revival, and again, I talked about John's son, how he used to go into, and oh, how the established church always fights against revival, against the Holy Spirit, and again, there's no, there's no judgment passed on it.

There's no words towards them saying, oh, these people have sinned a great sin. They are, they are Pharisees. They are wolves in sheep's clothing that fight against the Holy Spirit, and they are in danger of God removing them.

You go through history and look at this. You have John Wesley, who was a part of the Church of England, and again, when on that special December the 31st watch night, when he and George Whitefield and Charles and others that were gathered there, and the Holy Spirit came down and changed and impacted their life, and of course, George Whitefield came across and was a part of our Great Awakening preaching in the streets, in the highways, in the byway, up and down the mid-Atlantic coast.